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Earth Day may be coming up, but here at My Poetic Side we don’t need a holiday to celebrate the gorgeous natural landscapes that this country offers. The sun is out and vacation is on our minds, but there’s so much inspiration to be found – inspiration that we’re eager to channel into our own poetry. Luckily the National Park Service has created an artist in residence program called ...
Gérard de Nerval was an influential 19th century French poet, playwright and translator. He belonged to the French Romantic school of poets and was instrumental in getting French readers to appreciate similar work by German writers such as Goethe, Schiller and Klopstock through his translations of their poetry. His later material delved into such areas as madness and the difference between fiction and ...
Cathy Park Hong is a poet, essayist and college lecturer, specialising in creative writing. She uses the technique of mixed language in some of her work where different languages are fused to create meaningful text, usually known as “code-switching”. She was born on the 7th August 1976 in Los Angeles, the daughter of Korean parents. She grew up in Ohio, graduating from the ...
Paisley Rekdal is an American award winning poet and university lecturer. Little is known of her early life but she was born some time during the late 20th century in Seattle, Washington State and she was raised by her Chinese-American mother and Norwegian father. She was a bright girl at school and went on to receive a good university education, beginning with a ...
Amy King is a contemporary American poet, born sometime during the late 20th century, who has published at least four collections of poetry during the period 2005-2011. She is also a college lecturer, currently teaching English at Nassau Community College. Her time is split between three locations - Baltimore, Phoenicia, and Long Island. She is a private person and very little is known ...
Carmen Giménez Smith is an American poet and lyric essay writer. She has filled posts as a university lecturer on the subject of creative writing along with editorial positions. She also acts a publisher of a company called Noemi Press. She was born on the 20th February 1971 in New York City but her parents moved the family to the bay area of ...
Charles Wright is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet who, in his 79th year, was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States, a role that he filled from June 2014 until May 2015. As well as writing he has had a long teaching career at various establishments including being Souder Family Professor of English at Charlottesville’s University of Virginia. He was born on the 25th August ...
Philip Levine was a prize-winning American writer and university lecturer who rose from a working class background in Detroit to become one of his country’s greatest poets. Among many honours and awards came the ultimate prize, when he was into his eighties. In 2011 he was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States, a post which he filled for two years. He was born ...
Ted Kooser is a US poet and university lecturer who has also spent time in the life insurance industry and was the editor of a newspaper for a time. Many honours and awards have come his way, the most prestigious being his appointment in 2004 to the post of Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. He filled this role for two years and ...
Charles Simic is a Serbian-born, Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet and university lecturer. He has taught at the University of New Hampshire since 1973 and is currently professor emeritus of American literature and creative writing. He was nominated three times for the Pulitzer award, winning it once in 1990 for The World Doesn't End, but his greatest achievement came in 2007 when he was appointed 15th ...
